But why would Apple do this? Because Apple wants Intel's new Pentium D chips.

Released just few days ago, the dual-core chips include a hardware copy protection scheme that prevents "unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted materials from the motherboard," according to PC World.

Apple -- or rather, Hollywood -- wants the Pentium D to secure an online movie store (iFlicks if you will), that will allow consumers to buy or rent new movies on demand, over the internet.

According to News.com, the Intel transition will occur first in the summer with the Mac mini, which I'll bet will become a mini-Tivo-cum-home-server.

Hooked to the internet, it will allow movies to be ordered and stored, and if this News.com piece is correct, loaded onto the video iPod that's in the works.

Intel's DRM scheme has been kept under wraps -- to prevent giving clues to crackers -- but the company has said it will allow content to be moved around a home network, and onto suitably-equipped portable devices.

eamonshute, correct. I was referring to US. Insignificant, yes. I like the power of Apple's cultish trend with consumers. That is all. I know where the bread is buttered, but I like the spice Apple could bring to the table.

Pickle

While Apple is only 5% of the market, it will bring the consumer aspect to the TPM market.

Maybe we could see this kind of PR again.


AMD and Wave Systems to Enable Advanced Security Features for Commercial and Consumer Computing

SUNNYVALE, CA -- March 27, 2000 --AMD, a leading supplier of integrated circuits for personal and networked computers, and Wave Systems Corp., a provider of electronic commerce, content distribution and security services, today announced an alliance to integrate new security functions for commercial and consumer computing. These advanced functions will enable personal computers and emerging information access devices to assume a key new role for secure delivery of content such as music and video, as well as a full range of e-commerce transactions. Users will have a stronger set of tools to protect the privacy of their sensitive information such as electronic identity and credit card numbers. For the content industry, this will provide a major step forward to implement new distribution and buying models while providing protection of the intellectual property of artists, authors, and performers. For the corporate world, key new content protection features will provide enhanced security for documents as well as enable secure options for remote access, business to business virtual networks, and authenticated network logon.
"To participate fully in the next generation of e-commerce, personal computers and information access devices must provide a secure environment that protects digital Internet content delivered to both the home and office," said David Somo, AMD's Vice President of Marketing, Computation Products Group. "As a result, systems manufacturers must add important new functions for security and privacy to their platforms. With this agreement, AMD is taking a leadership role in delivering key technologies to enable the growth of digital content and e-commerce."

AMD and Wave Systems will work jointly to incorporate Wave's Trusted Client architecture as a core component of PC motherboards and other platforms. This will add new functionality including new user privacy options, distributed e-commerce and transaction capability, and a programmable security hardware infrastructure. The extended functionality will be based on an evolving standard for PC platform security being created by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA). Both AMD and Wave Systems participate in the TCPA, which is an industry alliance focused on hardware and software specifications to enhance security and trust of the PC platform. Over the past year, Wave has been working with many of the important industry leaders to develop an open industry standard referred to as the Embedded Security Application System (EMBASSY) based on Trusted Client architecture.

"We are committed to using the TCPA specification as a building block for an open programmable Trusted Client Architecture as we move forward," states Gregory Kazmierczak, Vice President, Technology, Wave Systems Corp.. "The EMBASSY System is a robust platform capable of flexibly supporting a wide range of security and privacy standards as they evolve. Wave is shipping versions of their Trusted Client Architecture in peripheral devices, but believes that ultimately this functionality should be a fully integrated component of computing platforms. AMD plays a pivotal role in bringing this functionality to home and business computing."

After successfully integrating the security functions, AMD will include this new functionality into some commercial and consumer motherboard reference designs - AMD's "blueprint" for PC motherboards given to PC manufacturers. These future AMD reference designs will include specifications on how and where Trusted Client technology can be integrated into PC motherboards in an effort to standardize and deploy Trusted Client technology as an open systems specification.

The extended set of capabilities enabled by the Trusted Client architecture are aimed at delivering a wide range of new content and services to users. By using any high speed network and Wave's Trusted Client Architecture, consumers can take advantage of a number of new distribution and buying models for content including rent to own, pay-per-view, as well as free trials of full function software, games, music, and videos. Businesses will benefit from enhanced security in the use of emerging net-based tools such as ASP (Application Service Provider) software delivery.

"Today's announcement is a very important step in Wave's strategy to deploy a network of Trusted Client devices," said Steven Sprague, CEO, President and COO, Wave Systems Corp. "By including Wave's Trusted Client architecture as the basis of security in the PC motherboard reference design, AMD is incorporating a fundamental building block of future PCs and information access devices. I'm very confident in our ability to work together to evolve these devices into a central point of trust and transaction in the digital economy."

Additional information and a white paper on the EMBASSY "trusted client" are available at http://www.wave.com.

Posted, but nice read on AMD Pacifica, especially Security section.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/33047.pdf

Being picky, but would have been nice to see "Personal" replaced with "Dell" on the headline. WAVX has momentum with 1.2 TPM deployment. And the TrustZone right behind it. "Slow down, I do not think" as Yoda would say. Not a pickle, but a close cousin nonetheless.

Pickle

Personal Computers Include Support for Next Generation Security
Friday June 3, 6:27 am ET


LEE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2005--Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX - News, www.wave.com - News) announced today that its EMBASSY® Security Center and Cryptographic Service Provider software applications are included with the new Dell Precision(TM) 380 workstation and OptiPlex(TM) GX620 corporate desktop.
These trusted computing software applications are bundled with systems that include the STMicroelectronics Trusted Platform Module 1.2 security chip hardware. A Trusted Platform Module is a silicon chip included in a PC and enables protected storage of secrets for enhanced security capabilities. Wave's software applications simplify the management and support of security capabilities of the Trusted Platform Module, also known as a TPM.

The Wave EMBASSY Security Center software is designed to allow easy set up, configuration, password management, and multi-factor authentication management for the TPM. The security center helps the user choose management and settings for security policies, and enables TPM key management and recovery capabilities. This application also allows secure, hardware-based log-in, and the addition of fingerprint biometric authentication.

The Wave Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) allows easy integration of third party applications that make use of the TPM chip for enhanced security of that application. The Wave CSP is compliant with Microsoft's crypto-API specification.

Wave's trusted computing software is also compliant with Trusted Computing Group specifications and works with all commercially available TPMs. The computer industry has shipped millions of PCs embedded with the TCG-standard TPM 1.1 chip, and is transitioning to the newly introduced 1.2 TPM chip.

An expanded suite of Wave's trusted computing software, EMBASSY Trust Suite, continues to be available as a purchase option.

This announcement does not provide for any minimum or maximum guaranteed shipped quantities.

For more information about Wave's trusted applications and services, please go to: http://www.wave.com/products/ets.html.

About Wave Systems

Consumers and businesses are demanding a computing environment that is more trusted, private, safe and secure. Wave is a leader in delivering trusted computing applications and services with advanced products, infrastructure and solutions across multiple trusted platforms from a variety of vendors. Wave holds a portfolio of significant fundamental patents in security and e-commerce applications and employs some of the world's leading security systems architects and engineers. For more information about Wave, visit http://www.wave.com.

Dell brings Dual-Core Technology to Workstation Users
Desktop PCs / Just Announced
Thu 02 Jun 2005




SINGAPORE, June 2, 2005—Dell today announced that its workstation will be among the first to include the enhanced performance enabled by Intel's new dual-core processor technology. Available now in Asia Pacific, the new systems help customers save time and use computing resources more efficiently for design and analysis or when creating or enjoying digital content.

The Dell Precision 380 workstation can allow high-end professionals to multitask more effectively. In addition, customers can get better performance when running multithreaded applications with this new technology than when using single-core processor platforms. The Dell Precision 380, which offers an innovative, easy-to-deploy chassis design, enables workstation professionals to run applications that require fast processing performance for video editing, animation and computer-aided design (CAD).

"Dell is committed to leading the industry in offering innovation designed to enhance users' business and entertainment needs," said Ho Lye Sum, Singapore Country Manager, Dell Asia Pte Ltd. "Whether a workstation professional, multimedia enthusiast or gamer, the new systems deliver ground-breaking functionality that will change the way people work and play."

"Over time, dual-core systems will become more and more standard for desktop computing as customers seek increased performance in more complex tasks," said Roger Kay, vice president of Client Computing at IDC. "Dual core shows particular promise in situations in which several compute-intensive tasks like video rendering and audio streaming need to be done at the same time."

Redefined Entry-Level Workstation The Dell Precision 380 redefines productivity for professionals in the entry workstation segment by helping to increase scalability and reliability through an innovative product design. In addition to including the Intel® Pentium® 64-bit dual-core processor, the Dell Precision 380 features 64-bit Pentium 4 600 series processors with 2MB L2 cache. The new workstation can support up to 8GB1 of memory2, which enables customers working with large data sets to experience high productivity through great performance and flexibility. This allows engineers and creative professionals who rely on Independent Software Vendor-certified (ISV) workstation technology to do more and work fast with maximum uptime.

The Dell Precision 380 also features an innovative new chassis that supports either tower or desktop orientations. The new chassis includes rotating optical storage so that the correct orientation is presented to the user regardless of how the system is installed. This means IT managers can reduce complexity with the ability to scale a single platform across an organization according to user needs.

Other Dell Precision 380 features include:

Intel 955X Express chipset supports up to four SATA II drives and RAID 0, 1,5,10
DDR2 ECC memory for reliable operation
Support for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Rack-mountable chassis
3-Year Next Business Day (NBD) On-site Response Service3
Price for the Dell Precision 380 starts from S$2,260 (GST & delivery included). For more information, visit www.dell.com/workstations or call 1800-394-7486.

Larry, nice. I bet that $2 price target will be moved up in a few months.

Pickle

OT: Dell, HP Rank Highly In CIOs' Minds
06.01.05, 5:09 PM ET

Merrill Lynch said a recent survey shows chief information officers, or CIOs, don't believe the early Easter has affected their first-quarter spending. "Most European CIOs, however, say that economies are weakening there and that the stronger dollar may hurt outlays for U.S. vendors," Merrill said. The research firm said one-third of respondents use Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) services and almost 90% of those are pleased with Dell's performance, "a positive finding given the importance of services to Dell's profits." A majority of respondents indicated they aren't sure if Mark Hurd is the right choice as CEO for Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), but most of those with an opinion favor him. "Suggestions for Mr. Hurd include redefining HP's business, cutting costs, and improving customer relationships," according to Merrill. "We think the coming restructuring should bolster shares for now but that eventually HP's strategic deficiencies must be addressed." Elsewhere in the sector, Merrill said interest in acquiring Network Appliance (nasdaq: NTAP - news - people ) filers from IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) appears tepid, especially compared with the greater number of users that already buy network attached storage, or NAS, products from EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ). Merrill said programmers appear to prefer Java from Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) over .Net tools from Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), though "the tide may be turning in Microsoft's favor."

Thanks, Awk.

Awk, what kind of file is this? Having trouble opening. Thx.

Doma, great way to start short week. Is that an additional $.50 or $1.00 per unit?

Pickle

eamonshute, thought so. Maybe, maybe.

From HP site. Sorry if posted. Nice to hear Wave described so eloquently.

When used in conjunction with Wave Systems' EMBASSY® Trust Suite, the HP ProtectTools Embedded Security solution enables more secure and seamless file storage and business transactions. The combined solution from Wave Systems and HP provides customers with stronger PC security that is easy to administer and use, by IT staff and end-users alike.

Wave Systems' Document Manager uses the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) of HP ProtectTools Embedded Security to provide secure storage and management capabilities for file, folder and drive-level encryption, enhancing the native functionality of HP's solution. This solution easily integrates file encryption into Microsoft Office applications and Microsoft Windows Explorer.

Additionally, HP ProtectTools Embedded Security is enhanced by Wave Systems' e-SIGN Transaction Management (eTM) SuiteTM, which ensures the integrity of digitally signed contracts. The eTM suite of services, with SmartSignature® and SmartSAFETM, offers a complete web-based digital signing and document storage solution including digital document creation, digital signatures, and document management and retention. Combining the functionalities of HP ProtectTools Embedded Security and the eTM Suite enables customers to electronically sign and store legally binding documents. For more information about how to take advantage of these Wave Systems solutions, click here

Wave Systems, a leader in the development of infrastructure and services that enable the deployment and management of trusted computing platforms, is headquartered in Lee, MA, with development centers around the U.S. and in France.

HP continues to release new models with 1.2 TPM.

http://search.hp.com/query.html?col=alldocs&charset=iso-8859-1&la=en&hpvc=US+-+main&...

Foam, you are on a tear. Great job. That is some meat!

Vegetable Pickle

bbigtim, Great observation! EOM

Ramsey2, hope you are right. Things are starting to move fast and nobody wants to get left behind. Especially the new CEO of HP. He needs to regain HP's market presence quickly after last year.

Pickle

cliffdweller,

I thought the same thing, but it is refering to HP Protect Tools. I guess Wave could evetually be under HP Protect Tools, but that is an unknown. I suspect not yet or that would have been 8k worthy.

Pickle

rachelelise,

I prefer HP, but I will take another customer either way. It seems like we are finding out more each day.

Pickle

awk, my bad. I made that mistake as well.

Sorry if posted. This is a new 1.2 TPM machine with 1.2 TPM Embedded Security Chip integrated with Broadcom NIC. Uses Intel® 945G chipset. That should spell WAVE, no?

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12253_na/12253_na.pdf

Today's PR was about name dropping and the value of TPMs across industries. Wave is assembling quite a resume of industry leaders as its business partners. That is an indication of 1) technological superiority and 2) management 's ability to sell it.

Pickle

Nice link to HP stating their 1.2 TPM support and Credential Manager, etc..

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2005/smbsecurity/fssecurityprotection.pdf

weby, like this part.

Intel says the formal business platform announcement is scheduled for later this month, at which time it also expects to announce vendor endorsements.

Epassports. Sorry if posted, but still interesting. From Wave website.

http://wave.com/about/whitepapers/wp_epassport.pdf

Thanks to all for SHM posts! Great stuff. EOM

Unix, I will give you credit for being a polite/stealthy basher. Do you post on other IHUB boards you own stock, or do you pay money to post on a message board of a company where you hold no stock? Should have bought 50 shares of WAVX instead.

Unix, that is disingenuous. You enjoy more than just reading the board.

Pickle

Then you might try to allocate your time where it can best be served. It is not here if you are not and will not become a shareholder. No risk, no reward.

Pickle

Thanks, Unixguy. I suggest you look at a neglible investment at the current price. Little downside and you can pepper the board with questions and "realist" observations in good conscious.

Pickle

Still not answering the question, Unixguy.

Pickle

Thanks! Doma.

Doma, nevermind. Cannot open PDF.

Doma, so how many boards is that now? Is it in all of their new lines?
Don't you think Dell is going to be launching ramp for Intel on this new line?

Pickle

Vader,

Could be after effects of Dutton report or some news is coming. Volume on Friday will be interesting. May the force be with us.

Pickle

There must be news a coming around that Trusted Computing mountain.

Pickle

OT: Further Info on Intel Active Management Technology

New Capabilities to Improve IT Platform Management Efficiency


A major barrier to greater IT efficiency has been removed. Now, corporate IT departments can remotely manage networked platforms in any system state. Even with a crashed hard drive or locked operating system, the IT technician can remotely access the platform for diagnostics, recovery and inventory management. Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) provides capabilities that make new levels of IT management possible.

Intel® Active Management Technology is a platform-resident hardware and firmware solution uses out-of-band (OOB) communication for platform access regardless of the state of the operating system (OS) or platform power. Essentially, the only requirements are that the platform be corporate network connected and have stand-by power. Even when a platform is powered down or has a non-operational OS, Intel® Active Management Technology maintains access to and management of the platform. This "any platform state" access gives corporate IT departments unprecedented power for more efficient platform management with reduced IT operating costs.


Intel® Active Management Technology Features & Benefits


Features Benefits

OOB System Management


Allows remote management of platforms regardless of power on/off state or OS state

Remote Troubleshooting and Recovery

Significantly reduces desk-side visits, increasing the efficiency of IT technical staff

Proactive Alerting

Decreases downtime and minimizes time-to-repair

Remote Hardware and Software Tracking

Eliminates time-consuming manual inventory tracking and human error, reducing asset accounting costs and increasing tracking accuracy

Non-Volatile Storage

Survives power outages and system rebuilds

Tamper-Resistant Agents

Prevents users from removing critical inventory, remote-control or virus-protection agents

Remote Trouble Shooting and Recovery

Let's look at an example showing what happens in an example when the OS become inoperable. In the traditional IT environment, the end user calls the IT department to report the problem. An IT technician is then sent to assess and fix the problem, hopefully in a single desk-side visit or two. On platforms using Intel® AMT technology, the OS crash can be quickly and efficiently resolved—possibly even averted—without any desk-side visits.

Figure 1. Alerting, remote control and diagnostics

The following sequence shown in Figure 1 explains how: 1. Proactive alerting automatically senses platform health and reports deficiencies, such as an inoperable OS, to the IT management console. The proactive alerting feature of this new technology uses OOB communication, which is not handled by the OS. As a result, the inoperable OS cannot stop the alert from being sent. The IT management console receives the OS proactive alert, and the console operator knows what has happened to which platform, precluding the need for a technician desk-side visit.
2. Remote booting allows the console operator to take control of the crashed platform by remotely booting it to an IT diagnostic platform. At this point, the console operator uses existing management software to assess and fix the inoperable OS. This could include reinstallation of the IT-approved OS and patches from the IT management platform, eliminating the requirement of a desk-side visit.
3. Remote Management uses third-party IT-management tools that work through a uniform network-connected application programming interface (API) provided by Intel® Active Management Technology.


Asset Inventory Management


Intel® Active Management Technology allows the IT department to continue tracking platform inventory in any system state because the inventory platform asset information is stored in non-volatile, always-available memory.


Figure 2. Asset management

Figure 2 shows an example of how asset inventory management works: 1. The ISV application running on the IT console polls platforms on the network.
2. Platforms on the network report their inventory.


Complete and accurate asset inventory is always possible because the asset information is tamper resistant, cannot be removed, intentionally or inadvertently, from platforms, and it survives OS rebuilds. This allows more efficient control and use of network platforms, reducing the number of unidentifiable platforms on the intranet.


Intel® Active Management Technology and Standards Support


Intel® Active Management Technology is the first implementation of the Intel® Cross-Platform Manageability Program (Intel® CPMP), a business and technology initiative to deliver consistent management capabilities, protocols and interfaces across all Intel platforms. As a part of the Intel® CPMP, Intel is working closely with other industry leaders to advance the platform-manageability ecosystem to support common management capabilities and product interoperability across platforms. To ensure that standards are in place to support this effort, Intel participates in a wide variety of industry-standards and specifications groups.

Intel continues to build upon its history of innovation and leadership in delivering platform-management building blocks, specifications and software across its diverse product line. Over the next few years, new platform-management capabilities will emerge in Intel platforms, supported by a common interface to management software utilities, consoles and frameworks.

go-kite, the revenue projections are indeed exciting in that conservative estimates are a given. Nobody wants to end up looking bad so a 30-50% sandbag seems about right IMO. This tank is full of gas and with 1.2 TPM deployment, the race is about to begin. I want this formailized in a PR somehow, and I am willing to bet Dell is going to win this race, which means Wave will be coming along for the ride.

Pickle